The Penn's Grove record., 1887-08-20

Tomatoes brought 81 a basket in
Market on Monday.
The next legal holiday in this State
is "Labor Day"-September 9Th.
Henry Richman has built an addition
| TO bis canning factory at Sharptown.
Barney McNey, a Wilmingtonian,
was stabbed Oh the Republic last sun
day evening during a fight.
Rev. Mayhem Davis will preach next
Sabbath, both morning and evening, IN
Emmanu NJ. Z. Church.
Sharks are accused of causing the
great scarcity of soft crabs in the wa
tiers of the Chesapeake bay this sum
mer.
Clerk Flynn reports that more bills
for COroners' %inqnests were presented
at the Freeholders' meeting on Wednes-
day than had been p eseuted during the
entire preceding year.
A. l.. Hates has purchased the en-
tire business of the Woodstown Regis
ter Mr.. Hates will take charge on the
9Th of September. He has owned II
half interest for sometime.
Rev. w. Margerum has purchased
from John ]. Campbell, of Millville,
his neat and cO%mmodious Cottage at
Pitman Grove, situated on West Az
enue real 9TH st.
Freckles, the Scientific American
saws. in. an answer to a correspondent,
cannot be entirely banished, but a wash
made by dissolving three grains of bor-
! AK in five drachms each of rose water
and orange flower water is said to III
excellent for them.
The Scotch yacht Thistle arrived off
Tompkinsvllle, S. l., on Tuesday morn
ing. She has been twenty-one days on
her passage. She will ace with the
American yacht Volunteer in the lat
er part of September for the American
cup.
An off-year for apples, a half year
for peaches, a two-third year for grapes
With these dismal prophecies it is en-
~couraging to remember that there are
usually more grapes, peaches and APP
pies grown than can be disposed of
This, as other short years, probably,
will bring to market rnly about as
much as can be used.
One of our citizens has informed
us that in driving by. the water works
| lake one hot day last week, he saw
several COWS standing i'll the pond.
| This will not be very pleasant news TO
the water-takers, Of course, but we
| simply make mention of the fact SO
that the water committee may see the
necessity of fencing in the lake.-S.
JerSeymdn.
Gunners ana dealers in this county
! have for several years made c%onsidera-
! Bile money by sending birds wings to
New York dealers in plumage, but a
law passed by the list LEGISLATURE OF
| that State makes it "a criminal offense
to have such plumage i'll ones posses
| sion, and thus the business has been
effectually killed.
The tomato crop is said to be par
| tial failure and the packers and farm
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The vines are large and rank, but
with comparatively few settings. Hith-
erto the tomato crop was considered
the surest crop grown as it thrived
equally we'll in wet or dry weather.
However, should there be a late fall
we venture the prediction that the
crop will be II usual one.
The canning of fruits and vegetables
in California has increased rapidly
within the last few years. 1t has near
ly trebled IN a decade, the pack of last
seasons exceeding $4,000 cases, and
that of 1887 is estimated to be at least
80 per cent. larger making the produc-
ton nearly / ZOO, 600 cases. Fully 50
per cent. of these canned goods are
marketed east of the Rocky Mountains
not a few of them being sold for dir
ect export to Europe.
Gus Weinacht and Grlff. Hewitt go
down the Bay each week to catch trout
for sale on their return. They say
there is no trout on the Delaware side
of the Bay this year and that they
catch all their fish off of Fortes9ue.
The few past years fishing has been
best ON the Delaware side, They claim
the cause to be because the rains have
made the water tresher than usual and
the fish go to the Jersey side for deep
er and salter water.
The Lighthouse Board has given no
tice that, beginning this week, the light
of the front (Billingsport) beacon ofthe
Tinieum Island and Fort Miffiin bar
ranges will be shown from a structure
situated ffty-two feet to the %northward
and eastward of its present position
aud on the line of the Fort Milf
lin bar cut range line. The effect of
the change of location will be to show
the Tinicum Island range farther from
Chester Island bar and nearer to TIM
cum Island.
An act If the last Legislature makes
it penal offence for any dealer IN
farm produce to allow the purchaser to
take away the basket in which it is con-
tanned, without first dep0Siting the val
ne thereof with the dealer, to lie re-
funded Whtn the basket Is relurned;
provided, however, that the basket has
the owners name thereon. This act IS
for the protection of farmers and 9th